SmarterthanYou
rebel
no it's not, idiot. gas prices went up 20 cents in 4 days here. any gains in the economy you thought were going to happen will be retarded due to energy costs........again.
Hey moron you don't even understand the statement.
If you are paying more for gas that goes to my bottom line idiot.
SmarterthanYou
rebel
then qualify your idiotic statement with YOUR economy will get better, not THE economy.
SmarterthanYou
rebel
how much did your college degrees cost you?
SmarterthanYou
rebel
total fail on your part then, retard. if it's the whole country, how do you equate it with YOUR economy.
douchebagger, you're the champ.
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Guns Guns Guns
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Employers know they don't have to pay substantial wage increases to keep workers.
Average weekly earnings last month fell to $788.56.
It's impossible to do exact inflation-adjusted comparisons with previous months until June's inflation rate is released, but June's earnings will be lower.
Earnings are falling because employers are pulling back on hours, while keeping wages essentially flat. The average work week for all employees in the private sector fell to 34.3 hours in June, according to Labor Department data released Friday. Meanwhile, average hourly earnings decreased by 1 cent to $22.99.
"There's no bargaining power in this economy," said Frank Levy, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/08/news/economy/wages_jobs/index.htm
Average weekly earnings last month fell to $788.56.
It's impossible to do exact inflation-adjusted comparisons with previous months until June's inflation rate is released, but June's earnings will be lower.
Earnings are falling because employers are pulling back on hours, while keeping wages essentially flat. The average work week for all employees in the private sector fell to 34.3 hours in June, according to Labor Department data released Friday. Meanwhile, average hourly earnings decreased by 1 cent to $22.99.
"There's no bargaining power in this economy," said Frank Levy, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/08/news/economy/wages_jobs/index.htm
apple0154
MEOW
That guarantee costs less because while everyone has to save for medical expenses not everyone will require that money for medical. It's much cheaper to have a pool available where everyone has contributed a small portion.
Medical cost less in those days because there was a larger middle class. Again, wealth and poverty depend on what others are earning in the community. There was less of a discrepancy between the unskilled worker and, say, a plumber or electrician and a doctor had to make his price affordable. Today, the unskilled worker is making $10.00/hr while the plumber is making 3 times his wages. In those days the plumber wasn't making 3 times the wages of an unskilled worker so if a plumber could afford a doctor so could an unskilled worker. The poor are, literally, getting poorer.
Huh? The obesity problem is more prevalent in the US than in countries with government medical plans. I doubt that is a factor in obesity but you brought it up.
But government medical already costs 1/3 less. What better place to start?
apple0154
MEOW
Liberty, msg 47
AssHatZombie, msg 48
Wrong guys.
The depression was due to the belief that free markets, capitalist markets, could regulate themselves. The failure and following bailout resulted in a tightening up of credit.
Listen to Alan Greenspan testifying before Congress. Take 20 seconds, from 0.32 – 0.52 on the video, to learn the reason.
Questioned under Henry Waxman, “Your view of the world, your ideology, was not right”
Greenspan’s response, “Precisely!”
Ideology: 1. the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
2. such a body of doctrine, myth, etc., with reference to some political and social plan, (Dic.com)
Now look at which political party and “beverage” party espouses less government oversight, more “free” enterprise. Just how “free” is that ideology?
AssHatZombie, msg 48
Wrong guys.
The depression was due to the belief that free markets, capitalist markets, could regulate themselves. The failure and following bailout resulted in a tightening up of credit. Listen to Alan Greenspan testifying before Congress. Take 20 seconds, from 0.32 – 0.52 on the video, to learn the reason.
Questioned under Henry Waxman, “Your view of the world, your ideology, was not right”
Greenspan’s response, “Precisely!”
Ideology: 1. the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
2. such a body of doctrine, myth, etc., with reference to some political and social plan, (Dic.com)
Now look at which political party and “beverage” party
espouses less government oversight, more “free” enterprise. Just how “free” is that ideology?
Liberty
Libertarian Minded
Nothing personal, but Texas does seem to take care of itself pretty good.
Of course that's just my opinion.
Liberty
Libertarian Minded
Liberty, msg 47
AssHatZombie, msg 48
Wrong guys.
Listen to Alan Greenspan testifying before Congress. Take 20 seconds, from 0.32 – 0.52 on the video, to learn the reason.
Questioned under Henry Waxman, “Your view of the world, your ideology, was not right”
Greenspan’s response, “Precisely!”
Ideology: 1. the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
2. such a body of doctrine, myth, etc., with reference to some political and social plan, (Dic.com)
Now look at which political party and “beverage” party
I'm a Libertarian. You have me confused with something else.
Maybe you should check out more of what Ron Paul is saying.
He knows Alen personally.
Liberty
Libertarian Minded
Well if you think about it, NAZI Germany was at it's peak in 1944.
Again with the substition, I was talking total economy he was talking his own struggles.
I lived in Houston, I know very well Texas is one of the best states economically. What I said didn't contradict that brozilla.
Ahh, you might want to consult your colleg history books, Germany was getting raped in late 1943.
though I do agree that republican police state tactics on the poor look very gestapo.
Good Luck
New member
The problem with that view is the "small" contribution never stops, and never stops growing into an ever larger contribution. Conversely, if one saves for emergencies which never happen, they eventually have enough saved up, and can then start using the monthly contribution for something else. The short run may be cheaper for SOME, but the long run is always more expensive for everyone.
Where do you get your tripe from? Medical costs less in those days for a number of reasons. One, there was less government regulation making things more expensive. Two, people did not get multi-million dollar awards because their doctor cut their fingernails .05 mm too short. Three, people did not run to the emergency room for runny noses as they do now when their medical is paid by government.
It's time people faced reality. The days of unskilled labor commanding equitable wages are gone. If people continue to insist that unskilled labor be somehow subsidized to bring them to a specified standard of living, it will simply force employers to use technological replacements for unskilled labor. We live in a world in which unskilled labor simply has far less relative value than in the days referred to. 50 years ago there were no computers. Today computers are used to make machinery do the jobs that were formerly occupied by unskilled labor. This trend is the result of people like you who insist on artificially inflating the value of labor of all kinds. Unions, minimum wage laws, and all of those types of plans in which labor value is artificially inflated through political and/or economic pressures are the primary factor which makes it cheaper to buy an expensive machine hooked to an expensive computer to do the job of 20 unskilled laborers. Your fantasy of utopia in which people who can barely count change should command similar wages to those who spent the time and effort to learn a marketable skill is EXACTLY why unskilled labor has lost its value.
Try using more up to date figures than the ones you pull out of the 80s. Universal health plans world wide are being scaled back because they have become too expensive to sustain.